Back in the good old days of the internet, just as it was taking off, some people made a bit of cash from buying other companies’ domain names and then selling them back to them at a profit. Eventually a few court cases pretty much put paid to this idea, as people asserted their right to domain names over those that had initially bought them.

But now, with blogging taking off in the public sector, it seems someone’s registering blogspot domain names that certain local authorities might want to use. Can’t tell why, but perhaps they think they can try the same trick here? I do hope people wouldn’t be so foolish, but then, this is the internetz.